Uprooting believers.

[FallentoReason]

Yes, the forums are a great medium to ask such questions of the non-believers. I was kind of thinking like formulating a sort of thorough and rigorous explanation to show how religious people can be walked down from their position without hurting themselves (too much). I've been watching that Evid3nc3 series pretty much nonstop and he's basically done the work I was thinking of. Meticulously going point by point how he had been led to believe what he believes, and why each point had inherent flaws, and how those points could be dismantled. Glorious series. I was thinking something of that on a scholastic level, I guess.

I've been pondering on how to utilise Evid3nc3's method of viewing the religious experience in order to deconvert people as well. I think some of the effort needs to come from the believer themselves though. Except, they won't know they're headed in the direction of deconversion. That's pretty much what I did without knowing it; I decided to go out and confirm the "truths" I knew by looking for the historical & philosophical evidence/arguments, and from this sincere pursuit of truth, as a Christian, I came to a point where I simply couldn't take the cognitive dissonance anymore, and I "cracked" -- or deconverted.

Of course, I'm fairly young compared to the average age at this forum, so my pursuit for the truth wasn't at all influenced by the circumstances in my life. I mean, sure, I still had some things to lose like the church community I was a part of, my worship team position & generally being able to do life with my Christian friends. But I have the rest of my life in order to pursue a new direction and build my life around the values I now have. This most likely isn't true of our resident believers. I'm assuming the majority are either married and influential in their churches, or both. Therefore, seeing the light simply isn't something that can ever happen, and therefore that seed of humbleness and integrity that I had within me which enabled me to honestly search for truth won't ever be planted in them. Their bliss necessarily depends upon staying in the comfort of the darkness.